Understanding Gonorrhea (The Clap): Top Gonorrhea Myths and Facts

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Understanding Gonorrhea (The Clap): Top Gonorrhea Myths and Facts

Watch more Learn about STDs videos: http://www.howcast.com/guides/698-Learn-about-STDs Subscribe to Howcast's YouTube Channel - http://howc.st/uLaHRS Learn the top myths and facts about gonorrhea (The Clap) in this Howcast video about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Expert: Jane Bogart, M.A. Howcast uploads the highest quality how-to videos daily! Be sure to check out our playlists for guides that interest you: http://howc.st/ytmainplaylists Subscribe to Howcast's other YouTube Channels: Howcast Health Channel - http://howc.st/HOE3aY Howcast Video Games Channel - http://howc.st/tYKKrk Howcast Tech Channel - http://howc.st/rx9FwR Howcast Food Channel - http://howc.st/umBoJX Howcast Arts & Recreation Channel - http://howc.st/vmB86i Howcast Sports & Fitness Channel - http://howc.st/vKjUjm Howcast Personal Care & Style Channel - http://howc.st/vbbNt3 Howcast empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how. Emphasizing high-quality instructional videos, Howcast brings you experts who provide accurate information in easy-to-follow tutorials on everything from makeup, hairstyling, nail art design, and soccer to parkour, skateboarding, dancing, kissing, and much, much more. Gonorrhea is a bacterial infection and therefore it is completely curable. One of the biggest myths around gonorrhea is you would know if you had it, but gonorrhea is often asymptomatic which means it has no symptoms. So, you might not know that you have it. Gonorrhea tends to be more symptomatic actually in women than in men. So, women might know they have it because they might have a discharge or a burning upon urination. Men when they have symptoms will also have the same type of symptoms. A discharge or burning upon urination. And the only way to know that you have it is to get tested. It is completely curable with antibiotics. A really important fact about gonorrhea is in order to get rid of it both partners need to be treated at the same time and they both need to take their full course of antibiotic in order to rid the body of the infection. If not, it can keep passing it back and forth or pass it to other partners. Another myth about gonorrhea is that it doesn't really exist anymore. And that's just not true. In certain populations especially young people it's very much on the rise again. And gonorrhea and chlamydia are often are co-infections. So, if someone has chlamydia they will often be infected with gonorrhea, as well. One very important thing to note is that although gonorrhea and chlamydia are completely curable with antibiotics if left undiagnosed and untreated they can lead to infertility in both men and women. So, it's really important to follow a medical provider information and follow the prescription that you're given if you are diagnosed with gonorrhea.

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